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Food Service Rant
16 years ago
There are very very few groups of people I truly hate. One of the groups are bastards who think bisexuals and homosexuals don't deserve certain legal rights. The only other kind are people who have no problem being complete douchebags to be people in retail or food business.
If there is one thing working at McDonalds is that you don't be an asshole to people in the food business, no matter what your problem may be. There are several reasons for this.
1. There's a running joke that you don't fuck with the people who handle your food. Well guess what? It's true in even the most professionally run restaurants. There are so many ways to mess with your food that you wouldn't ever notice unless you were told. So for the sake of your stomach, don't piss off or offend anybody in the crew that the grill crew happens to like.
2. Employees in the food industry are people too. Very often people don't see anything but an employee in uniform and forget that they are people too, with feelings, opinions, and values. Would you be a jerk to somebody you meet on the street who wasn't be a jerk to you in the first place? If not, then you shouldn't be a jerk to the person behind that counter.
3. Sometimes people make mistakes. Shit happens, get over it. If your order is taken wrong or you've been given the wrong food through the drive-thru, don't explode on the next poor fuck you see that works there. Don't throw your food at somebody, and don't cuss them out, don't even be rude. Trust me, after a couple months in the food service industry, people develop this shell shock-like reaction when somebody tells them they've given them the wrong order. Even when you're being polite, there's this part in the employee that twitches in fear and goes "Oh fuck". Being an asshole about it isn't going to help you getting your order fixed in any sort of manner.
On the flip side, there are those people who have become so hardened to assholes that they will deliberately do their worst to help you if you're rude about the whole deal. My store's night crew is the perfect example.
So basically, what this whole spiel boils down to is don't be a douche to people in food service, even if you're order's wrong. If you're nice about it and just say "Hi, something was wrong with my order, could you fix it?" or something that's also not rude, then the person who you're talking to is waaayyyy more likely to be willing to help you. In other words, being an ass about it won't get you anywhere far.
This is Khris K., your resident Marret...
Over and Out!
If there is one thing working at McDonalds is that you don't be an asshole to people in the food business, no matter what your problem may be. There are several reasons for this.
1. There's a running joke that you don't fuck with the people who handle your food. Well guess what? It's true in even the most professionally run restaurants. There are so many ways to mess with your food that you wouldn't ever notice unless you were told. So for the sake of your stomach, don't piss off or offend anybody in the crew that the grill crew happens to like.
2. Employees in the food industry are people too. Very often people don't see anything but an employee in uniform and forget that they are people too, with feelings, opinions, and values. Would you be a jerk to somebody you meet on the street who wasn't be a jerk to you in the first place? If not, then you shouldn't be a jerk to the person behind that counter.
3. Sometimes people make mistakes. Shit happens, get over it. If your order is taken wrong or you've been given the wrong food through the drive-thru, don't explode on the next poor fuck you see that works there. Don't throw your food at somebody, and don't cuss them out, don't even be rude. Trust me, after a couple months in the food service industry, people develop this shell shock-like reaction when somebody tells them they've given them the wrong order. Even when you're being polite, there's this part in the employee that twitches in fear and goes "Oh fuck". Being an asshole about it isn't going to help you getting your order fixed in any sort of manner.
On the flip side, there are those people who have become so hardened to assholes that they will deliberately do their worst to help you if you're rude about the whole deal. My store's night crew is the perfect example.
So basically, what this whole spiel boils down to is don't be a douche to people in food service, even if you're order's wrong. If you're nice about it and just say "Hi, something was wrong with my order, could you fix it?" or something that's also not rude, then the person who you're talking to is waaayyyy more likely to be willing to help you. In other words, being an ass about it won't get you anywhere far.
This is Khris K., your resident Marret...
Over and Out!
all of springville knows...dont fuck with the McD crew now....they know that even if the customer mistreats the day shift...the night shift will get them. and vice versa. and after last week...no one in town will question that. XD. and you are right.....there are litterally millions of ways to do things to ppl's food that will be completely harmless, but horrify them upon discovery of it.
Like ex lax milkshakes and ubber salty fries......two of my personal favs.
This kind of people (on which I share your dislike) seems not to have it. They tend to think of "how things should be" and not "how things should be done", which is quite more deeply - and interesting. When you ask for your order and you get an incorrect one, most of them think "I got a wrong order. Useless bastards.". When a daily-wise one asks for an order and gets an incorrect one thinks: "I got a wrong order, that's a problem. What's the best way to fix it? Where did it go wrong? How can I avoid it in the future?"
The point is learning, and finding solutions, not ranting over every problem but getting into them and find the way out.
I hope I could express myself correctly, I'm not even quite sure about that. XD
See ya!